Photographic-stamp-portrait sheet



(No Model.)

H. KUHN.

PHOTOGRATHTG STAMP PORTRAIT SHEET.

10.366.225 Patented July 12, 1887.

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i H l NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY KUHN, OF ST. LOUIS, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY A. HYATT, OF KIRKVOOD, MISSOURI.

PHOTOGRAPHlC-'STAlVlP-PORTRAIT SHEET.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent 365.2124, dated jl-lly l2, 1887.

v Application led October-r11, 1884. Serial No.7145,210. (No model.)

' To @ZZ whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY'KUHN, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvementin Photography,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has relation to an improvement in the art of photography; and the object is to produce a sheet of small fac-simile photographieportraits or other pictures, which may be gummed and perforated `or otherwise weakened along divisional'liues after-the manner of a sheet of postage-stamps, and the pictures separately detached from the sheet and conveniently attached to cards, letters, and the like5and to these ends my invention chiefly relates to the production of what is known to the trade as a sheet of stamp-portraits vgummed and perforated ready for use.

The gure in the drawing is a section of a sheet of said stamp-portraits.

A multiple negative with the images adjoining each other in rows is taken at a single exposure from a photograph or picture of 'the object or person whose pictures are to appear upon the sheet, and then a corresponding paper sheet is printed therefrom, toned down, and finished in the usual manner of unmounted photographs. The sheet may then be gummed and perforated after the manner of sheets of postage stamps, or the gumming and perforating may be omitted. It is then ready for market. As required for use, a portrait or picture is detached, and by moistening the back when gummed, or with mucilage or other adhesive when it is not, itniay besecured to an article in substantially the same manner andwith the same convenience as an ordinary postage-stamp, and the various uses to which the stamp-portrait is applicable will readily suggest themselves without further description.

I usually make the fac-similes of the size of postagestamps and separate them by divisional lines or spaces, such as occur in sheets of postage-stamps; but I desire not to be confined to that size. or to sheets having such lines or spaces. In both instances, whether the divisional lines or spaces are or are not used,the fac-similes adjoin1 so that no other fac-simile can be interposed between them, and the negative from which the sheet 1s printed is exposed but once, so that a sheet of even tone throughout is assured.

In a pending application of mine for Letters Patentfiled October 7, 1885, Serial No. 179,273, I describe the apparatus used by me in carrying out the abovedescribed process.

I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, asheet of photographic pictures having the conneci -0f photographic pictures gummed and perforated, as set forth.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a paper sheet having miniature even-toned fao simile photographic pictures printed thereon in close order in rows extending up and down and across its face, such sheet being gnmmed at thebzwk and having Zither rows of perforations or weakened lines between the rows of pictures, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY KUHN.

IYitnesses:

G. E. Bicor, ALBERT KANN. 

